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You're not mentioning salary bands which allow the same position and responsibilities to have up to 40% variation in salary, and promotions which allow you to officially state someone is not proven to work at the same level as another individual. Ah, and the restriction on the employee most powerful salary negotiation, the typical "I got a job offer and I'm leaving unless you match the salary".
Also, you can't really move jobs either. So a H1B friend of mine was in fact underpaid for the work he was doing because actually moving to the job title he was doing would've restarted the clock on his citizenship.
You can't apply for citizenship from a H1-B. You have to get permanent residency (green card) first, then be a permanent resident for 5 years.
It may have been his green card. I'll admit to not being intricately aware of the process. I just know he was taken advantage of due to his inability to change job titles without doing something to his efforts to eventually become a citizen.
I'm not sure about other companies, but the big tech companies pay exactly the same regardless of whether you're on a work visa or not. At the company I work at, bonuses and raises are formulaic based on performance, and the performance discussions/calibrations for ratings and promotions don't take visa status into account at all (I've participated in them).
Smaller companies are less ethical, but they get a much smaller proportion of the H1-B visas.